The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-01-27
. Smuggling on the Rio Grand is an

OI taC 4eiO olt[uo III Hi
exciting and somewhat perilous business
since the revenue officers and the law
breakers push chance encounter to the
bitter end. The record of ten smugglers
and three guards killed in the last fight,
over $4,000 worth of goods, is dead
lier than that of some battles in Indian
warfare. Gen. Stanley has officially dwelt
on the great temptation 10 smuggling
afforded by river boundary Of more
than thousand miles, fordable here and
there throughout its length, and with
population in many places friendly to
the smugglers. A body of deperadoes
and outlaws is thus maintained, living
indif1erently on either side of the river,
and breaking the customs regulations of
both Governments with entire impartiali-
ty. 1t is probable, also, that they are at
the bottom of much marauding on private
property when their regular industry of
smuggling is dull, and that many acts
ascribed to international hostility are only
the demonstrations of these gentry TO
while away their leisure hours.
Fifteen years ago land could be
purchased within mile of the business
centre Of Chattanooga, Tenn, for from
$50 to $50 an acre. But the rapid growth
in business aud population in that city is
sending real estate up in value. On
Tuesday last syndicate of capitalists
from Ohio, Kentucky and Mississippi
purchased q tract of 200 acres in the
suburbs Of Chattanooga, paying for it
$500,0O0 or at the rate of s., 500 per acre.
The purchasers will make extensive i'm.
provements on the property, and will
develop many sites for manufacturing
and business purpose. On the same day
the representative of several English
banks purchased 160 acres of land some
distance from the city limits for 100000.
Another sale was site for huge steam
forge, which will give employment to a
large number of hands.
There is a movement on foot for a
reunion ef the survivors of Pickett's
famous charge at Gettysburg next July.
Pickett, who was major general COM
mandiug the division, aud Brigadier
Generals Garnet and Armistead, com.
mandirg t~o of the brigades that
charged, perished on the field; but Brig
adler Geaer.. James L. Kemper, who
was severely wounded and captured at
the elimination of the attack, still
survives, with an encysted bullet in him
as a memento of the charge. He has
since been Governor of Virginia, and
Gen. Eppa Hunton, another survivor,
has been in Congress. Special invita-.
tions have been sent to General Kemper
and Huntcn.
- The Presidents wife is keeping up
with her distinguished husband and says
that she never feels tired shaking hands.
At one Of her noon receptions last week
she shook hands with three hundred and
twenty seven persons in an hour. A New
York lady who has had the best oppor-
tunities tor seeing the best society of
Europe and this country, after dining in
state at the White House on Thursday
evening last, exclaimed: "Mrs. Cleye.
land is perfectly lovely. never saw her
before, and, having heard 80 much of her,
rather expected to be disappointed, but
her manners and ready conversation are
most charming, aud she is a!so beauti.
full woman. Her tactat the dinner amaz-
ed me-"
Hon. A. P. Butler, commissioner of
agriculture, has received a letter from
w. NJ. Graham, of Sumter, stating that
some of his fiue Ayrshire cattle have
symptoms of pleuro-pueumonia Colonel
Butler has instructed DR.. Benjamin
McInnes, of Charleston, the veterinary
surgeon of the department Of agriculture,
to proceed to Sumter Immediately and
make thorough examination of the
cattle said TO be affected. DR.. McIunes'
report will be awaited with anxiety by
ali owners of stock.
"A bill, providing penal punishment
for any ono convicted of attempting to
teach or promulgate polygamous doc
tr;nes in that State, is before the Legis-
lature of Tennessee, where many Nor
mon converts have been made, despite
another ant milder law to the contrary.